Daytime TV: All too human
Gary Day finds nature thrilling but is filled with gloom by our perpetual desire to reinvent ourselves
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Top institutions in chemistry
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999-June 2009
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Down with scholars!
Our vice-chancellor is to head up a brand new organisation called UMAS (University Managers Against Scholarship).Speaking to The Poppletonian earlier this week, he explained that membership of UMAS...
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Is a G&T growth enabling?
Sally Feldman's mentoring sessions don't follow rules, and that's no bad thing
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Research intelligence: 'You must spread the word'
RCUK head warns that people need to know the benefits of public investment in research. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Postgrads deserve better
The social and personal-development needs of students who study for higher degrees must be taken more seriously
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From where I sit - Teaching is half the battle
A friend of mine who decided to go back to university to do a postgraduate teaching degree in her mid-forties recently withdrew from the course after barely a semester. She didn't think the course's...
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Simon Thirgood, 1962-2009
An ecologist who influenced conservation policy from the Scottish grouse moors to the Serengeti has died.Simon Thirgood was born in Liberia on 6 December 1962 and brought up in Vancouver, where his...
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University of Oxford - SIM city
A mobile-phone service launched by the University of Oxford will provide maps, contacts and news to students and visitors, plus travel information, podcasts and information on library books. Unlike...
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Invisible hand needs someone to stir the pot
Reproduction and childcare tend to get short shrift from dismal science. But Nancy Folbre brings to the fore the impact that sex and family can have on economic activity. Matthew Reisz learns the...
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The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
Robert A. Segal is delighted by a study of two titans of thought who failed to fathom each other
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A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse
China is the West's only serious rival for global dominance. Unlike its relationship with the defunct Soviet Union, the West depends on this competitor (the US survives on its lending), yet, more...
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Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture
Architecture is the most politicised of professions. The process began after the First World War when Georg Walter Adolf Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and others associated with the Bauhaus...
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The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism
June Purvis is impressed by a long-overdue study of this poet, writer and lecturer for social reform